Boom Defence Vessel

Famous quotes containing the words boom, defence and/or vessel:

    “California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1935)

    “Sow seed—but let no tyrant reap;
    Find wealth—let no imposter heap;
    Weave robes—let not the idle wear;
    Forge arms—in your defence to bear.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “This could be the day.
    I could slip anchor and wander
    to the end of the jetty
    uncoil into the waters
    a vessel of light moonglade
    ride the freshets to sundown”
    —Audre Lorde (1934–1992)